BNP doesn’t show up at AL’s council

BNP backtracked from its earlier position to send a delegation to the Awami League’s 20th council today being held at the city’s Suhrawardy Udyan, party insiders said.

Party sources said although the party had earlier decided to attend the council, now they are considering the negative impact on the party leaders and activists if it attends the council.

On Friday, a BNP leader told media that they are going to attend the AL council to prove that BNP is not a narrow minded political party rather it is a moderate democratic party.

“You [AL] didn't join our council. You didn't even say sorry over the phone. But ours is not a narrow-minded party like yours and you will have the proof that the BNP is a moderate and democratic political party,” said Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, a joint secretary general of BNP yesterday.

But, talking to The Daily Star today, Alal said he does not know whether the party will attend the AL council.

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Meanwhile, BNP’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today told The Daily Star that he is unwell and does not know whether BNP is going to attend the council.

Many of our leaders were killed and there have been many cases of enforced disappearances during the present government rule.

“What we will say to a victim’s family if they ask us what we had said about these issues at the council,” said a joint secretary general of the party seeking anonymity.